Another theory about eating meat!?!
What do you think?
Answers: Lions kill their food with their teeth and their claws, same as all carnivores, humans need weapons....I've never seen a human attack a cow and kill it with his/her bare hands! Or catch a rabbit on foot!
What do you think?
- "but it was most certainly done long long ago."
You may want to believe this, but have you actually researched this?
His point is - People don't do this, even hunters, because difficult for humans, and, even with ancient humans, we have no instinct to do that. His point is: this is one more of MANY examples that humans are herbavores.
We have a "sweet tooth" because, like the other primates, we are designed to eat mostly fruit. I know, some are saying "that SOUNDS nice"(as in Paradise), but.....
well, you should base you beliefs on science, not commercials. So here you go.....
Fruitarian bodybuilder explains: http://www.charliesgym.info/wst_page2.ht...
Meat Myth - by a Ph.D.
Actual Vegan athletes, NOT beaker studies: http://www.veganbodybuilding.com/phpBB2/
http://www.vsdc.org/meatmyth.html
Physicians Committee http://www.pcrm.org/health/veginfo/vsk/i...
One of the things that distinguishes our species from most others (not all, but most) is our ability to make and use tools. I don't know too many people (though I'm sure there are a few out there) who forage for their food exclusively. Most of us are dependent upon farming, which requires tools. So, since, by and large, vegetarians and omnivores both are dependent upon tool-using to get their dinners, what, exactly, is your point?
(vegetarian here)
I'm not upset. Have a good day!
not in today's day and age, but it was most certainly done long long ago.
I think you have too much time on your hands..........let people live their lives the way they choose and we will let you live your life the way you choose
I've never seen a human attack a cow and kill it with his/her bare hands, or catch a rabbit on foot either. I think it is a coincidence.
True. Ancient humans were more herbavores that ate light meat such as fish. Once we started to evolve, we started to eat heavier meats.
What is your point? That if we killed animals with our teeth then you would be OK with eating meat. Thanks for the 2 points. I will just continue to go to my local market and purchase my meat if it is OK with you.
It's not really fair is it? It isn't like someone is there protecting the animal kingdom. I wonder if cows would be nicer to us if they farmed us and killed little boys for meat and kept the girls to be milked.
We often see the "its natural" belief.
I don't see lions creating barns full of caged zebras, do you ?
Thats the difference. We abuse of position of power over animals.
Lions go by instinct, we choose to abuse our position.
It's true that 1st ancient man never born as a meat-eater. But psychologically evolved as a omnivorous, best known since homo sapient. Even the use of fire-a modern invention.
You probably asking this question because you think that it’s an argument against people who are not eating meat. Lol. But, I will answer you. This is right, we should eat plants raw. And in fact many people around the world are doing that (crudivorism). Human were not meant to eat plants, but fruits in fact. Human were not meant to eat seed for example. That's why we have to cook them (like wheat, rice, lentils) in order to be able to eat that kind of food. So the evidence is: humans were meant to eat fruits and we usually eat them raw.
I don’t mean that we should stop cook plants and cereals (seeds). It is a cultural heritage, this is a way to have more variety and if we don’t abuse that kind of food, it is not really un-healthy. Meat is different, because when you choose to eat meat, you have to ask yourself "is my wish to have the taste of meat in my mouth greater than the wish of this animal to continue to live, to be happy and to grow-up by himself?". You can’t ask the same question for a plant, as a plant can’t have "wishes". And if someone think seriously a plant have wishes, then probably the wishes of any fruits-tree is to find someone to bring the fruits, to eat them and to let the seed fall-down somewhere it can grow-up. So, to everybody who is telling that plant can have "wishes", being fruitarian and then come here to help the one who are "only" vegetarian or vegan, to follow you.
long ago, yes that would be the case
but i don't think that would impress alot of people nowadays
Read this in a book called Skinny *****. Is this were you heard this?
Not only are humans unlikely to be able to *catch* a rabbit on foot, when most of us see a rabbit, we're more liable to say "oh how cute" instead of salivating.
True. Just one more peice of evidence proving we don't need meat to survive. And yet people continue to think so anyways..
We were given tools to catch our food. They are called hands with fingers capable of gripping and making tools - (note the all capable thumb)
We also were giving the ability to kill our food before we eat it - Unlike lions who make their pray suffer while they eat the flesh alive!
You can try to make sense of your choice by making stupid questions up - But, when it comes down to it - people have reasons for lots of things, we don't always agree - and no one is always right. so, live life how you want and leave meat eaters alone!
Edit: besides animal evoled into what they are - if they had to chase a rabbit to eat, they did. So, the rabbit got faster and so did the preditor. The thing is - people got smarter - instead of faster. All is evolution - duh!
If we didn't make tools - we would run faster too.
Well I had thought about that when I became Vegan about a year ago. Carnivores like animals don't need weapons or cook the meat. If humans were to eat raw meet they would probably get sick. We don't have the sharp claws or sharp enough teeth to eat raw meat.
If we were truly meant to eat meat we wouldn't have to cook it.
People that eat meat need to stop getting on this section of Yahoo Answers. Yes we all opinions about things but that doesn't mean we need to put down the opinions of others.
i recently did a research paper on vegetarianism, and found a chart laying out the anatomical differences between meateaters and vegetarian animals, things like differences in teeth/claws/nails and also in intestine length etc. i can't remember the name of the book it's from, sorry, but it was making this exact point: that humans are not biologically formed to eat meat.
Homo Sapiens (humans ) means "The Tool Maker".. that's we evolved into, creatures who use tools... Frankly, since you brought it up, I could easily ask and apply the same logic to vegetarians.. Meat eaters don't kill their own food.. true.. but neither do most vegetarians plant their own vegetables.. meat eaters need to butcher their food.. true. But vegetarians need to harvest (or have others harvest) their food too. You don't get on the ground and munch on veggies or climb trees to get your fruit like a true herbivore do you? Vegetables don't grow inside plastic bags on supermarket shelves do they? How do you get soybeans to become tofu anyway? I do know how, do you? How do you explain the use of tools by vegetarians? If you can allow vegetarians the benefits of evolution, why not omnivores? I hunt and my family owns a farm. I know I can survive in the wild at least for a reasonable periord of time. You? I seriously doubt if you or most vegetarians in this forum know how to plant a single vegtable much less plant enough to have a sustaninable food source for years in order to survive.
Keep in mind that while western societies enjoy abundant food supplies and thus can afford choices, many people all over the world don't have that luxury. They need to eat and they eat what is available. If that happens to be wild root crops harvested from the forest or vegetables from a small plot of land then that's what they eat. if it happens to be a small animal or fish hunted or trapped or fished in some remote forest or lake or river or whatever, then that's dinner. their food choices are basic. Not "should I be vegetarian because (reason here) or an omnivore (reason here). It's "Is there anything to eat today? Tomorrow?" Not very easy to be vegetarian by choice where electricity is not even a regular occurence much less supermarkets with an "Organic Section" or shelves stocked with colorful veggies and mock meats etc etc. And really, even in western societies such conditions still exist.